MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT DELVES INTO DARK WATERS WITH ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED FILMS OF 2007 - THE HOST

Arriving on DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD July 24 From Magnolia Home Entertainment, The Darkly Comic Creature-Feature Showcases Ingenious Plotting, Quirky Characters And Dazzling Special Effects

³One of the greatest monster movies ever made.²
- New York Magazine

³What a pleasure to watch an ambitious horror film that not only frightens, but surprises and engages us completely.²
- USA Today

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. ­ ³A knockout monster movie,² (People). ³Crazily funny and wildly entertaining² (Premiere Magazine), THE HOST is a ³terrific hybrid-genre fantasy and a seriously scary freakout² (The New York Times).

Magnolia Home Entertainment unleashes this spectacular monster movie on DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD July 24. Thrusting a normal, multi-generational family into the middle of an extraordinary event, THE HOST fuses poignant character drama with the larger-than-life conventions of a classic creature feature for a fresh, thrilling and startlingly emotional result ³on a par with JAWS² (Ain¹t It Cool News). Boasting state-of-the-art special effects from the digital wizards at Weta Workshop (King Kong, Lord Of The Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire, Sin City), THE HOST maintains its humanity ­ and darkly comic ingenuity ­ by never losing sight of its offbeat core: the trials of an unremarkable family pitted against a larger-than-life mutant monster. The talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival and the latest film from critically acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho (Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories Of Murder), ³the most original, exhilaratingly scary-funny monster movie in many a season² (LA Weekly) quickly became the highest grossing South Korean film of all time, earning an unprecedented $93 million at the Korean box officeŠa truly remarkable figure, considering that the country is home to 45 million people. ³Destined to become a cult classic² (Instinct Magazine), THE HOST will be available as a standard DVD priced at $26.98 with deleted scenes and commentary by Director Bong Joon-Ho; a two-disc Collector¹s Edition priced at $29.98 loaded with four hours of incredible special features; and a HD DVD and Blu-ray version, priced at $34.98, each with bonus materials (detailed below).

Bonus Material

Standard DVD:
Deleted Scenes
Director Bong Joon-Ho film reflections

Two Disc Collector¹s Edition (DVD):

Disc One
Deleted Scenes
Director Bong Joon-Ho film reflections

Disc Two
Making Of The Host With Director Bong Joon-Ho Storyboards Memories Of The Sewer Set Design Physical Special Effects Sound Effects Designing The Creature Puppet Animatronix Animating The Creature The Crew: Production & Visual Effects Casting Tapes Cast Interviews Actor Training Gag Reel Cast & Crew Goodbye And Much More

HD DVD/Blu-ray Collector¹s Editions:
Making of the Host with Director Bong Joon-Ho Storyboards Memories of the Sewer Physical Special Effects Designing the Creature Puppet Animatronix Animating The Creature The Family: Main Cast Interviews Training the Actors Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Korean Trailer

Synopsis
A creature emerges from the Han River¹s shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers. When a young girl is snatched in the melee, her family set off to recover her from the monster that the government claims to be a host of an unidentified virus.

About Magnolia Home Entertainment
Magnolia Home Entertainment is the home video division of Magnolia Pictures.
Launched in November 2005, the company is releasing a diversified slate of films, including Alex Gibney¹s Academy Award® nominated documentary Enron:
The Smartest Guys in the Room, Steven Soderbergh¹s Bubble, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady¹s Academy Award® nominated documentary Jesus Camp and Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian. Magnolia Home Entertainment is part of a vertically-integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that includes distributor Magnolia Pictures, the Landmark Theatres chain, production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, high-definition cable networks HDNet and HDNet Movies. For more information visit http://www.magpictures.com.

THE HOST
DVD Price: $26.98 U.S.
Street Date: July 24, 2007
Running Time: 119 min
DVD Catalog Number: 10091
U.S. Rating: R

THE HOST 2-DISC COLLECTOR¹S EDITION
2-Disc DVD Price: $29.98 U.S.
Street Date: July 24, 2007
Running Time: 119 min
DVD Catalog Number: 10099
U.S. Rating: R

THE HOST BLU-RAY
BLU-RAY Price: $34.98 U.S.
Street Date: July 24, 2007
Running Time:119 min
DVD Catalog Number: 10100
U.S. Rating: R

THE HOST HD DVD
HD DVD Price: $34.98 U.S.
Street Date: July 24, 2007
Running Time: 119 min
DVD Catalog Number: 10101
U.S. Rating: R